The crows called in the distance. Waaing their way across the grey green sky. Wha whaaaa.   We were snuggled in the old canvas tent sleeping bags pulled tight around our necks, beanies on to ward off the winter chills rising out of the ground and whisping around the trees. The silence settled in as birds also snuggled down for the evening. Albeit without their sleeping bags.   The moon wandered its way across the sky. The green foretold of hail.   ‘Bloody hell, will this old

‘Yeah, I like tents.  I used to travel with my family, as a kid, up and down the NSW coast.  Even up to 10 years ago a friend and I would go camping.  Sometimes we would be naughty enough to venture as far inland as Tamworth.’   ‘Well, Kathmandu has a sale on.  Go buy one.’   ‘Triffic, a nice big one with bedroom and eating areas, maybe a couple of outside awnings.’   It’s now the 20s, we can go travel for a couple of days at a time.  Let’s see, that’s a good stove and the la

‘That’s mine – that’s my tent’ said the boy pointing to the smallest tent on the camping site.   How many animals fit into the tent?...

“It’s true. I lived in a tent for a year.” “A whole year, uninterrupted?” “Of course. A year’s a year… I don’t have any of the chicken...

‘I’ll book it in tentatively.’   ‘There’s no point beating around the bush. There no other time. Either we do it then or we don’t do it at all.’   She turns aside and mutters: ‘Maybe we won’t’.   ‘What?’   ‘Nothing. So you’re OK with the ocean view room?’   ‘Uh huh. No point going to the seaside and looking out onto a car park.’   ‘No point getting married and having the sex life of a fossil but some people still do it.’   ‘What?’   ‘I said a cark park would be awful, dear. W

When Elle was in Year 10 at Burwood Girls’ High) she and I moved to Portland, Oregon USA for a year to determine if she wanted an...

I am somewhat tent-ative about writing about tents.  Still, I must say, I have nothing against them... per se. I have several. I have had...

‘Hi I am Tent.  Part of Unusual Names Anonymous.  I implore you all to introduce yourselves.’ ‘Hi I’m Uluru, formerly known as Ayers.’ ...